Fun #13 - Hovercraft / Track Drying / Homestead, Florida / 1971

[Otto Puzzell]

Trying to keep your AutoPuzzles spirits up, and your fever down.

Know the story? For 1 point, identify the reason this out-of-place vehicle is intermingled with the others, where this happened, and the date.  

Partial answers will be answered with 'incomplete', so be sure to answer all parts of the question, if you'd like the point.

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[Otto Puzzell]

Experts?

[Otto Puzzell]

No guesses here - on to the Pro section, before the inevitable stop in the agujero negro

[Allemano]

before the inevitable stop in the agujero negro

See? Your Spanish is GREAT!

[Otto Puzzell]

Actually, the place where this picture was taken is not lacking speakers of Spanish. 

[D-type]

Curiouser and curiouser.

100E Fords, but left hand drive!
Spanish speaking (or at least partially)
Palm trees

is it a Carribean location?

[Otto Puzzell]

Slightly North of there

[woodinsight]

Bahamas?

[Otto Puzzell]

A little more North, and West

[Carnut]

Florida?

[Otto Puzzell]

Florida?

Yes!

[woodinsight]

Bahamas?

Lots of Spanish speakers in the Bahamas! Woodinsight's losing the plot! 

Could the location be Key West?
Late 1950s/early 1960s?
Testing the speed/driveabilty of the hovercraft against some mundane machinery?

[Otto Puzzell]

Not in the Keys, but not far from their terminus.

This was not a comparative test of hovercraft and wheeled vehicles.

[Wendax]

It was an innovative experiment in track drying! It worked pretty well, but the hovercraft skid down the banking in the corners. Picture taken at Florida City Speedway, Homestead, on Sept. 6, 1971

[Otto Puzzell]

Wow - you are solving some tough ones!

Another point for you.